Bernard Quotes

The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

Brains are not everything.

Those who are looking for paradise on Earth should come and see Dubrovnik.

Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.

Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.

I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.

The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.

There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.

I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary

To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.

Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.

When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves.

German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

My way of joking is to tell the truth

Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.

Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.

Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.

I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.

I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

Any belief worth having must survive doubt

When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.

I never expect a soldier to think.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.

All problems are finally scientific problems.

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most."

There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.

In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.

Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial.

A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.

No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.

The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.

Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.